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General C.S. Thomason's Ceol Mor is one of the most signficant collections of piobaireachd, and was an attempt to
create a comprehensive collection of piobaireachd. The collection played a significant role in forming the Piobaireachd
Society, and served as the source of settings for the Society's first competition. The details of Thomason's life, and
the history of Ceol Mor have been covered in detail in other sources, and we would refer our users to Dr. William
Donaldson's Highland Pipe and Scottish Society for more information. In addition, the Piobaireachd Society's web site
has a page entitled "The Making of Ceol Mor" that presents a history of the collection.

The version of Ceol Mor that is presented here comes from a 1975 reprint by EP Publishing Limited. Additional description
of this reprint
can be found in the
Ceol Mor bibliography provided on the Piobaireachd Society site.

Ceol Sean is especially grateful to Dr. William Donaldson for assistance provided in creating our CD version of
Ceol Mor. He helped us by identifying some corrections to the a few titles, and in highlighting other errata. We are also most grateful to Dr. Kenneth
Van Jackman, would loaned us his copy of the reprint to make the CD version possible.

Thomason developed his own system of notation for his settings, and users who wish to use these settings will need
to learn his system. Thomason's description of his system, along with revisions and updates are presented in the
first eleven entries in the Table of Contents provided below.